The Era -- Day By Day

[Harp]

Or Gerta Rozen, the actress who stripped in protest because she couldn't get hired in Hollywood. But to be fair, you're right Lizzie, this one is more in Sylvia's bailiwick.

Miss Landis from "One Billion B.C." begs to differ as she says, "The Harvard Lampoon doesn't understand the nuance of what would come to be known as 'camp'."

For some people, men and women, some kind of internal bell goes off, at some point in their lives, that tells them they have to marry now and they respond by marrying whoever is somewhat reasonable and available at the time.

It's just nice to see the titular star of the strip actually be the center of attention for once.
Finally. But again, Lana could do so much better.

Gerta and Sylvia seem quite a pair, both of them....

Last Christmas I gave Christmas stockings out to ladies at the office filled with favorite films;
including Yellow Rolls Royce with Rex Harrison, which started a Carole Landis suicide discussion.
I remembered reading a story that Harrison's son Noel had encountered later difficulties in LA due to
his father's supposed involvement. The sins of the father passed on to the son apparently.

I've dealt with the biological clock, and have been saved by the bell. Internally, doesn't ring any bells....

Terry as a Magi wise man. Take a pick: Gaspar, Melchior, or Balthazar. And the camel is Mr. Ed.

Lana dearest heart, chaste white pure as driven snow pearl, ruby beyond price, please not him.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'd like to see Salomey set her sights on Harold. Aside from the mind-implosion that would result from his being pursued by a woman who looks exactly like his best friend, the physical consequences would be hilarious.

I had no idea there were camels in China, but apparently there are. Clearly Mr. Caniff kept up his subscription to the National Geographic.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The Canadian-Pacific liner Empress of Austrialia arrived "safe in port" today, but authorities in London are refusing to disclose the port where she has moored, following a torpedo attack on the ship off the coast of French West Africa. It is speculated that she may have made port at Bathurst, in the British West African colony of Gambia, or that the vessel may have moored at the Portuguese Cape Verde Islands, just west of the ship's last reported position. The liner, most recently reported to be in service as a troop transport, issued a series of frantic radio calls for help over the 35-meter band last night, received by Tropical Radio in Miami, Florida, in which the ship was heard to declare that it had been torpedoed in the bow and was sinking, and that all lifeboats had been deployed. The message gave the ship's last position as 15 degrees 30 minutes north latitude and 18 degrees 20 minutes west longitude before the transmitter fell silent.

Republican legislative leaders today promised to cut Governor Herbert H. Lehman's proposed state budget for 1941, pledging "rigorous scrutiny" of the $385,000,000 spending package, which is already a reduction of $9,000,000 over that of the previous year. Republican legislators intend also to eliminate the emergency 1 percent tax on personal incomes enacted five years ago.

The $10,000,000 super-drydock project awarded this week by the U. S. Navy to Bayonne, New Jersey may be the nucleus of a huge new naval base at the Jersey port. The location selected is adjacent to the Navy's existing Bayonne supply base, fueling speculation that Naval authorities may intend to create a full-scale Bayonne Navy Yard at the site. The property under consideration is owned by a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and is adjacent to property currently owned by the City of Bayonne and the State of New Jersey.

Ten thousand Sanitation Department workers and hundreds of plows remain in the streets city-wide, working to clear four inches of snow from the streets in the wake of yesterday's storm. At LaGuardia Field, air service was suspended due to the storm, with all but one flight cancelled last night -- that one plane was bound for sunny Miami. Normal air service was resumed this morning as the snow came to an end.

President Roosevelt today acknowledged to a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders that the passage of the Lease-Lend bill for aid to Great Britain would authorize him "to do anything under the sun," but pledged that he has no intention of using such powers for any purpose other than that considered necessary by his naval and military advisors to further aid to Britain. During the two-hour meeting this morning, the President manifested "a very receptive mood" toward proposed amendments put forward by critics of the original bill intended to "curtail those great powers."

Wendell Willkie experienced his first air-raid drill in London today, only to realize he'd forgotten to carry the steel helmet he'd brought with him from America. The 1940 Republican presidential nominee was leaving St. Paul's Cathedral after inspecting bomb damage to the historic church when the sirens commenced their eerie wail. Mr. Willkie declined to go to a bomb shelter, and instead rode by automobile to the Bank of England, where he carried out a previously-arranged appointment with bank governor Montagu Norman. It has been announced that Mr. Willkie will meet with King George VI during his fact-finding visit to the British capital, but a date for that meeting has not been given. Meanwhile, Mr. Willkie has received hundreds of cards and letters from "the poorer sections of London" urging him to visit those areas to see for himself the extent of the bomb damage. It is expected that Mr. Willkie will "accept one or two of those invitations."

"Dramatic training gives many a career a lift!" declares the president of the Brooklyn Top-Hatters, one of the borough's busiest amateur theatrical troupes. Robert Carson, by profession an actor, dancer, and dramatic coach, formed the Top-Hatters three years ago, and now has 22 members under his direction, ranging in age from fourteen to sixty. There was a time, he notes, when people pursued amateur theatricals just for the fun and the excitement of it, but now the trend is to using the training thus gained to improve poise and self-confidence to get ahead in the business world. Mr. Carson finds that women take to the stage far more easily than men, noting that men tend to be much more shy about going out in front of an audience -- but he ensures thru his training that the gents in his company overcome that trait quickly. Mr. Carson is very strict about how he runs his company, warning that players who don't show up for rehearsals on time every time will get cut from the cast, and that all actors are made to understand that there are "no 'stars' in the company." The Top-Hatters' next performance, to be given February 6 and 7 at the Central YWCA Memorial Hall, will be a production of Rose Franken's 1933 Broadway romantic drama "Another Language."

Copper reclaimed from seized printing plates used to print pornographic literature will be donated to National Defense, according to Mayor LaGuardia, who yesterday personally supervised the destruction of the plates in Manhattan. "Keep that crowd back!" commanded the Mayor as police department workers examined the confiscated materials.

A group called "The Guardians of American Education" is leading a campaign against the series of school textbooks entitled "Man And His Changing Society," written by Professor Harold Rugg of Columbia University Teachers' College. Speaking to the Brooklyn Women's Club, Mr. Yates West, representing the organization, condemned the Rugg books for "teaching something called social science" instead of history, and declared that "it's not so much what they do teach as what they don't." Major Lee Hagood, also representing the Guardians group, urged a ban both on the Rugg textbooks and on all "youth organizations" as well.

("Ya sure Ahtie gonna be t'ere?" asks Joe. "He ain' runnin' ofta Mexico or marryin' Lana Toina a'nuttin?" "Nah," says Sally. "He's onna radio wit' Boins n' Allen now." "'At George, he betta watch out," frowns Joe.)

(You gotta feel for any poor soul trying to sell ocean cruises right now.)

Barrel-Bodied Fred Fitzsimmons sent back his signed contract for 1941 this week, and is officially just a player again instead of a player-coach. The new season will allow the forty-one-year-old pitcher to take it easy after a 1940 season in which he was usually the first Dodger in uniform and the last out. When he wasn't going 16-2 as a spot starter for the Flock, Freddie was coaching first base or supervising the Brooklyn bullpen -- but with Red Corriden now joining Charley Dressen on the coaching lines, Fitz will have plenty of time to focus on his new assignment as Leo Durocher's ace relief pitcher. The 1940 campaign also brought a carload of honors to the seventeen-year National League veteran, including a citation as the Outstanding Father in Sports, the Outstanding Veteran award from the Sporting News, and most of all, a gala night in his honor thrown by the Brooklyn fans at Ebbets Field. Remember when Freddie was a hated Giant? Neither does he.

Larry MacPhail is back in Brooklyn after a scouting trip to California, where the Red Headed One reportedly looked into the possibility of sending the Dodgers to Santa Barbara for Spring Training 1942. MacPhail has nothing to say at this time about the possibility of signing 38-year-old free-agent outfielder Paul Waner for 1941, even though Big Poison is said to be anxiously awaiting an official Brooklyn offer.

Remember heavyweight contender Kingfish Levinsky? He's out of the ring at 31, and after flopping as a pro wrestler, he's now selling cigarette lighters for a living on a Chicago Loop sidewalk.

Coney Island sideshow star F. J. McCormick of Syracuse will appear on "We The People" at 9 tonight over WABC, doing his famous act where he lights up a 40-watt bulb and a neon tube with just the palm of his hand. Gabriel Heatter will describe every sparkle for the unseen audience.

Studio shows are still off the schedule for W2XBS, following NBC's television cutback, but lookers-in will have a choice of sports remotes this week, including college basketball and the famous "Millrose Games" from Madison Square Garden, and wrestling from Jamacia Arena. Test patterns will also be shown Thursday, Friday, and Saturday to allow set owners to calibrate their equipment.

(Popping corn in the fire, Doc? How 1890. Where's the cosmic rays?)

("And another thing -- who's this 'George' person? You know my name is 'Elon.'")

(MASSIVE CORONARY)

(Didn't we just DO this storyline? Or are Dan and Irwin trapped forever in a recursive time loop? Hey Bungle, you've got experience with this stuff, help the boys out.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

You may recall that Magistrate Solomon is the fellow known for his "creative sentences" in domestic cases. Well, get set pal.

"Mixed jury" in this context means that both men and women are serving. Racially, the jury is all white.

Mr. Newman's publications were all pretty much the same stuff -- 8 X 10 pulps with saucy paintings on the covers, and a mix of smeary photos and raunch-oriented cartoons on the inside. The covers were more lavishly-detailed versions of the "Lillums in her underwear" stuff you get in the comic strips, but the insides were decidedly gamier.

"And if you observe a man with long white whiskers anywhere about the neighborhood, he is entirely in your imagination."

Jeez, Krome, the least you coulda done is let the engineer guy put his coat on first. You'll hear from the NABET in the morning.

At least he isn't singing "Chew Chew Chew Ya Bubble Gum."

Andy's on a train on its way far far out of town.

"Killer Dillers vs. Hyenas?" Well, at least they're not going to see the Amerks.

Plushie used to be quite rich, but then he started loaning money to Moon.

"Nope, I can't see a damn thing."

 

[Fading Fast]

View attachment 304883 ...Ten thousand Sanitation Department workers and hundreds of plows remain in the streets city-wide, working to clear four inches of snow from the streets in the wake of yesterday's storm. At LaGuardia Field, air service was suspended due to the storm, with all but one flight cancelled last night -- that one plane was bound for sunny Miami. Normal air service was resumed this morning as the snow came to an end....

Seems like quite the hullabaloo for four inches of snow. What happened to it being a heartier generation?

Barrel-Bodied Fred Fitzsimmons sent back his signed contract for 1941 this week, and is officially just a player again instead of a player-coach. The new season will allow the forty-one-year-old pitcher to take it easy after a 1940 season in which he was usually the first Dodger in uniform and the last out. When he wasn't going 16-2 as a spot starter for the Flock, Freddie was coaching first base or supervising the Brooklyn bullpen -- but with Red Corriden now joining Charley Dressen on the coaching lines, Fitz will have plenty of time to focus on his new assignment as Leo Durocher's ace relief pitcher. The 1940 campaign also brought a carload of honors to the seventeen-year National League veteran, including a citation as the Outstanding Father in Sports, the Outstanding Veteran award from the Sporting News, and most of all, a gala night in his honor thrown by the Brooklyn fans at Ebbets Field. Remember when Freddie was a hated Giant? Neither does he....

Kinda surprising they are moving a 16-2 pitcher to being a reliever, no? I know he's older, but still.

And "Barrel-Bodied," now they are just being mean for mean's sake.

...
(MASSIVE CORONARY)...

Great, now how do I get that image out of my mind.

...Mr. Newman's publications were all pretty much the same stuff -- 8 X 10 pulps with saucy paintings on the covers, and a mix of smeary photos and raunch-oriented cartoons on the inside. The covers were more lavishly-detailed versions of the "Lillums in her underwear" stuff you get in the comic strips, but the insides were decidedly gamier....

"...decidedly gamier." Nice phrasing.

... "Killer Dillers vs. Hyenas?" Well, at least they're not going to see the Amerks....

Taking a subway to a sports arena is a quintessential big-city experience.

... "Nope, I can't see a damn thing."

Hollywood also riffed on this with Marilyn in "How to Marry a Millionaire."

 

[Harp]

Love looks not with the eyes
but with the mind. And
therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Shakespeare
__________
O Venus, beauty of the skies...
Though now he freezes, he soon shall burn,
and be thy victim in his turn. Sappho

Lana dearest stares the mirror of Venus. A lovely vision so wonderful for her inner beauty.

 

[LizzieMaine]

For Lana to have glasses so thick they're practically opaque she must suffer from severe myopia, to the point where she's unable to function without them. I once knocked over an entire row of plaster birdbaths at a store because I didn't have my specs on and couldn't see them, and I wasn't even trying to impress Harold Teen.

I think the deal with Mr. Fitzsimmons is that some bright math whiz in the Dodger office pointed out that nearly all of Fitz's wins in 1940 came against Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Boston and not the stronger clubs in the league. Leo wants to focus his efforts in shorter bursts, figuring that will make him more effective against all opponents, rather than just letting him -- ah -- fatten his record against the stumblebums. That's not an uncommon way of using an aging knuckleballer, but we shall see how it plays out in the season to come.

I don't think its ethical for a nurse on duty to go all over the face of a patient like that. Or sanitary, either.

Up here, people ride their bikes to work in four inches of snow. But I guess heavy city traffic complicates matters, especially when so much of your snow-removal effort still concentrates on men with shovels.

I always loved going to Expos games in Montreal and riding directly into the stadium via the Metro -- the Pie IX station is literally in the basement of The Big O. Walk up one flight, and you're at the main gate.

 

[ChiTownScion]

"And if you observe a man with long white whiskers anywhere about the neighborhood, he is entirely in your imagination."

Did he look like this?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Mr. Am got pretty far-out in the sixties.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Gunmen for the Murder For Money gang and local narcotics peddlers found relaxation at the Williamsburg Boys Club on Marcy Avenue, according to the owner of the establishment. Forty-six-year-old Albert Angelson of 330 Keap Street readily told of his club's provisions for the entertainment of weary mobsters while testifying today in Brooklyn Federal Court, where he is himself on trial on a narcotics charge. Besides operating card and dice games at the club, Angelson testified, he also conducts a bail bond business from the clubhouse, being a licensed bail-bondsman. And, he also admitted, for the past six years he has conducted these businesses while also serving as a stool pigeon for the police. That claim was readily confirmed by Assistant Chief Deputy Commissioner John J. Ryan. Angelson, who has no prior criminal record, indicated that he has operated the club since 1933 or 1934, and his sole means of livellihood since that time has been gambling and the percentage of the "house cut" he draws from the games conducted at the club. That club has been raided twice in the past year, with each raid netting a dozenmen wanted for various crimes, although police indicated that the raids had only been conducted in a sweep for narcotics cases.

A former employee of the city's Department of Welfare today charged that Communists have taken control of that agency, and that she was dismissed from her job for engaging in anti-Communist activities. Miss Doris Stahl of 126 Heyward Street is suing the city for reinstatement, and named two of her former supervisors, Mrs. Pearl Zimmerman of 2168 Ablemarle Road and Mrs. Cora Leiberson of 1245 Broawdway, of being "Communistic" even in conducting routine affairs. Miss Stahl also stated from the witness stand today that "600 Communists" are employed in the welfare department as social investigators. Miss Stahl was dismissed from the Department in March of 1939 after her records showed that she failed to meet her required quota of work, but she contends that Communists in the department failed to credit her with work that she did.

The dictator of Greece died today after a brief illness, and King George II moved swiftly to organize a new government for the embattled nation. Premier John Metaxas, a veteran soldier and self-described "military genius" had ruled for five years, since engineering a military coup d'etat that gave Greece an authoritarian regime. Military men have given Premier Metaxas credit for the Greek Army's dramatic victories over Italy in the present war. A proclamation by the King declared that the war will continue under a new government with "no change in policy."

Three young men are under arrest today accused of homicide in the slaying of the operator of a Crown Heights laundry. Forty-two year old George Goodman was shot in the stomach last Friday night in a holdup attempt at the Howard Steam Laundry, 482 Howard Avenue, and died yesterday at St. Mary's Hospital. The robbers escaped with $300 from the till. Accused in the crime are 17-year-old Charles Amato of 472 Glenmore Avenue, 20-year-old Louis Miliano of 94 Berriman Street, and 22-year-old Bernard Goldstein of 560 Saratoga Avenue. Goldstein is alleged to have acted as a lookout while Amato and Miliano held up the shop, with Amato accused of firing the fatal shots. Miliano was injured leaping thru a plate glass window at the front of the store after the shooting.

Influenza cases are rising sharply in Brooklyn, with 176 new cases reported over the past week, compared to 105 the week before. Six persons died of the malady over the past week, for an increase of four.

Meanwhile, an epidemic of the German measles has forced a full quarantine at Mitchel Field, with 200 fliers and ground crew at the base under strict observation. The Eighth Pursuit Group of the Army Air Corps is based at the field, where about twenty cases of the disease have been confirmed. No person is permitted to enter or leave the base unless proof of immunity to the disease is furnished.

A bill now pending in the state legislature would ban the seizure of union membership rolls by any political entity. The measure, introduced by Assemblyman J. Eugene Zimmer of the American Labor Party, was filed in response to the Rapp-Coudert Committee's recent action seizing the membership lists of the Teachers Union local in New York City. Meanwhile, the Representative Committee of the Newspaper Guild, representing newspaper workers in the city, issued a formal condemnation of the Rapp-Coudert Committee's seizure of the membership rolls, calling the move "a serious attack on unionism."

(Oh please please please let them have a dance.)

"Perplexed" writes in to Helen Worth to ask what she thinks of a man who gets out of the bathtub and leaves the ring for his wife to clean up. "Please hurry with your response, as the ring is still in the bathtub." Helen says while she doesn't advocate leaving that job for someone else after a bath, if that's her husband's only fault then skip it. "Nagging never solved anything," but maybe posting a warning sign on the wall would?

(Ipana got its name because its original active ingredient was ipecac. Until too many people swallowed it and wondered why their breakfast came back up.)

The Eagle Editorialist comes out in favor of vitamins, reminding readers that the old 1917 slogan "Food Will Win The War" is also true in 1941. The new Federal Food Stamp program will do much to ensure that every American will have the strength and energy they will need for whatever the future may hold.

("That matchbook-cover degree in Eclectic Medicine is never gonna pay off. What if I try goat-glands?")

Civic, parental, and religious groups in the Windsor Terrace neighborhood will converge tonight for a protest rally in opposition to the proposed demolition of the playground at the corner of Prospect Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway for the construction of an apartment building. The Board of Transportation, which owns the plot of land upon which the WPA built the playground four years ago, has received an offer of $40,000 from a private firm wishing to turn the plot into housing. Residents say the playground, with four handball courts, a wading pool, and swings, is a definite asset to a neighborhood with so many underprivileged children.

(Hig is wearing a Dodger cap and a Phillies uniform. Somebody in the Eagle art department got an airbrush for Christmas.)

Larry MacPhail and Leo Durocher are meeting today at the Dodger offices on Montague Street to discuss the affairs of one P. Waner, formerly of Pittsburgh and presently looking for a job. Leo is convinced that Big Poison will be a big asset to the Flock in 1941 coming off the bench as an outfielder and pinch hitter, and believes the 38-year-old former star will be well worth whatever Mr. MacPhail is willing to offer for his services. Larry has expressed no view whatever on the matter of Mr. Waner, which is causing Mr. Waner to twist uncomfortably in the wind as Spring Training approaches. Meanwhile, Mr. MacPhail is distracted somewhat by word that newly-acquired catcher Mickey Owen does not feel that his contract offer is quite all that it should be, and thinks he ought to at least get the $15,000 Brooklyn paid Gus Mancuso to sit on the bench most of last year. Mr.MacPhail points out that much of Mancuso's salary was carried over from Gus's previous contract with the Cubs. The Dodgers have sent the recalcitrant Mr. Owen three contracts since acquiring him in a trade from the Cardinals last fall, and all three have arrived back at Montague Street unsigned. Mr. MacPhail is said to be not entirely pleased with Mr. Owen's attitude in this matter.

The nationwide celebration of the President's Birthday fundraiser for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will be carried on all networks tomorrow, from 11:15 pm to 12:15 am. The President himself will be the featured speaker, with musical entertainment furnished by the orchestras of Benny Goodman, Lee Dryer, Gene Krupa, and Jan Garber, picked up from locations around the country.

(Hedy is no simpering wallflower, let's give her that.)

(Don't be too hasty there, Doc. Imagine what you can get away with charging for a house call in 2041.)

("Oh thank gawd, I have no desire to be the stepmother of a 12 year old boy.")

("Or is it just that reeking black rope of a cigar Irwin's always sucking? I can't tell anymore.")

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Open and shut? Not at all.

It's not just the comic strips that are cynical about marriage.

Dick Tracy is miffed by being left out, Annie is philosophical, and Terry is too busy riding a camel to care.

"An old friend of yours arranged for my transportation, child. You knew him as Nick Gatt, but he has many names, many faces...."

Nobody likes a stool pigeon.

"And turn on the radio. It's almost time for 'Superman.'"

OK kid, Dimple and Dimple didn't work out. Try Pimple and Pimple down the street.

Wrestling's a big thing on television right now -- but how about wrestling a GORILLA?

I suppose there's multiple ways this can be interpreted, but all I'll say is that it wasn't a good gag when Moran and Mack did it either.

Odds that Lana steps off the curb in front of a car she didn't see coming now running at....

 

[Harp]

Terry is doing a Paul Revere, Japanese have air cover for offensive. But, guerillas have Hu Shee.
Hu Shee is concentration of force maxim maximum. Twisted silk steel and SEX appeal.
_____________

Lana sweet pearl should clam shut door with Mr Wrong.

 

[Fading Fast]

Gunmen for the Murder For Money gang and local narcotics peddlers found relaxation at the Williamsburg Boys Club on Marcy Avenue, according to the owner of the establishment. Forty-six-year-old Albert Angelson of 330 Keap Street readily told of his club's provisions for the entertainment of weary mobsters while testifying today in Brooklyn Federal Court, where he is himself on trial on a narcotics charge. Besides operating card and dice games at the club, Angelson testified, he also conducts a bail bond business from the clubhouse, being a licensed bail-bondsman. And, he also admitted, for the past six years he has conducted these businesses while also serving as a stool pigeon for the police. That claim was readily confirmed by Assistant Chief Deputy Commissioner John J. Ryan. Angelson, who has no prior criminal record, indicated that he has operated the club since 1933 or 1934, and his sole means of livellihood since that time has been gambling and the percentage of the "house cut" he draws from the games conducted at the club. That club has been raided twice in the past year, with each raid netting a dozenmen wanted for various crimes, although police indicated that the raids had only been conducted in a sweep for narcotics cases....

Well now, this place ties together a lot of Golden Era mob activity all in one fun setting. After a long hard day of murder and drug peddling, it's nice to know the gangsters had a little place where they could go to kick back and relax by playing dice and cards, drinking and obtaining bail for their friends. The raiding police must have had to look the other way from a lot of stuff when they were checking only for drugs. I could see Nick Gatt owing a place like this (not in his name), but being too smart to ever go there.

... Miliano was injured leaping thru a plate glass window at the front of the store after the shooting....

Why didn't he just use the front door?

...
(Oh please please please let them have a dance.)...

One wonders if the prudish Little Flower has actually read "Kitty Foyle" and knows that she had sex out of wedlock and had an abortion when she got pregnant to say nothing of all the drinking and smoking single young Kitty does while living in the Big Apple. Oh, her apathy to religion might interest him as well.

...
("Oh thank gawd, I have no desire to be the stepmother of a 12 year old boy.")...

My guess is he's teeing up the "I'm not worthy of you" speech.

...
("Or is it just that reeking black rope of a cigar Irwin's always sucking? I can't tell anymore.")

How'd Dan get a pass key?

...
It's not just the comic strips that are cynical about marriage.....

I thought it was kinda balanced on marriage, some nice things and some snarky things said.

... OK kid, Dimple and Dimple didn't work out. Try Pimple and Pimple down the street.....

He's morphing into Wilmer the salesman. What worked initially was an honest approach. Hopefully, he'll remember that - which is what Mr. Wumple told him - and stop this tactic.

...
Odds that Lana steps off the curb in front of a car she didn't see coming now running at....

I had a similar thought in that she'd walk right into the open door and start her date with a big bruise on her forehead.

I have no interest in skimpy, slutty dressing, but Lana could wear something a little more date like than a suit for her outing.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I have a terrible feeling that forty-six-year-old Albert Angelson isn't going to make it to forty-seven. Probably before spring they'll be fishing him out of a swamp in Jersey -- if the mob doesn't get him for squealing, Mama Frosch will get him for trying to cut in on her racket.

 

[LizzieMaine]

A clay-and-quicklime-caked body excavated near Lyndhurst, New Jersey may be the remains of Longshoremen's Union crusader Peter Panto, missing since July 1939 and widely believed to have been done in by the Murder For Money gang. District Attorney William O'Dwyer has been supervising digging in the Lyndhurst area for several weeks following a "reliable tip" that stated Panto's body would be found there. Panto, a fearless opponent of underworld infiltrators in the International Longshoremen's Association, had led a movement among the union rank-and-file to end extortion and kickback methods operating on the Brooklyn waterfront, and his disappearance sparked mass meetings of union members demanding the capture and prosecution of his assassins. It is believed that the information that led the District Attorney to New Jersey came from Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, key Murder For Money informant whose tips have already led to the prosecution of leading members of that gang. The body was discovered shortly before 4pm yesterday and was taken to the William Collins Morgue in Lyndhurst, and from there was carried by a police escort to the Kings County Morgue for examination and identification. It is believed there may be at least one other body near the spot where the remains were found, and excavations are continuing at the scene today.

A proposal to establish a $2,000,000,000 ceiling on Lease-Lend aid to Great Britain is furnishing a big test of strength today as the House Foreign Affairs Committee meets to finish work on the bill and report it out for further action. Although four major amendments to the bill believed to be acceptable to the Roosevelt Administration have already been approved, it is expected that the ceiling proposed by critics of the measure will be rejected, as was an amendment banning the use of convoys in the shipping of goods to Britain.

Adolf Hitler told a cheering throng of his Nazi followers that Great Britain "is no democracy," and British talk of "liberty and democracy" are "empty phraseology. Addressing a crowd of 20,000 persons at the Berlin Sports Palace today, and millions via radio, the Nazi Fuherer marked the eighth anniversary of his accession to power by asserting that no aid provided by the United States to Britain can arrive in time to save that country.

A 15-year-old New Jersey school girl attempted suicide today, four hours after the funeral of a 48-year-old high school teacher who blew himself up with stove gas after he was accused by her parents of seducing and assaulting her. Claire Englebert of West New York, N. J. drank the contents of a two-ounce bottle of iodine in the bathroom of her family's home, and her mother found her sprawled across her bed, her lips stained from the poison. Mrs. Engelbert forced milk down her daughter's throat while her neighbors summoned an ambulance to take the girl to a Weehawken hospital, where she is reported to be in "good condition." The suicide attempt followed the funeral for teacher William H. Lounsbury, who was arrested Tuesday after Miss Engelbert was questioned by her parents about the source of her spending money. Lounsbury was released on $5000 bail following his arrest, and went to the school where he taught and turned on all the jets on the kitchen-instruction classroom stove. A pilot light detonated the gas, blowing out a portion of the building and killing the teacher.

A renegade chemist operating out of a Williamsburg flat cheated Brooklyn drug addicts by diluting the morphine sold on the borough's streets by fifty percent. A trial underway this week in Brooklyn Felony Court seeks to send that scientist and three accomplices to prison, where they will join convicted drug kingpin Louis Adelman, sentenced to ten years for his role in the scheme. 55-year-old Samuel Bernstein of 31 W. 58th Street in Manhattan is accused to being the head of the illicit laboratory, which took advantage of the common belief that morphine cannot be adulterated by devising a process to do exactly that, using a combination of milk, sugar, and alcohol to extend the drug to twice its original volume.

A former timekeeper at a district welfare office in Flatbush testified today that copies of the Daily Worker "and other left wing publications" were seen on the premises of that office, and that "cleverly worded left-wing petitions" were frequently circulated there. Patrick J. Pelli of the Bronx, formerly employed at District Welfare Office 67, 2158 Abelmarle Road, testified today in support of charges by former office worker Doris Stahl that she was dismissed from her position due to "Communist influence."

President Roosevelt turns 59 today, with the nation joining to say "Happy Birthday" to the man in the White House. Throughout the nation Birthday Balls will be held in the President's honor to benefit the National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis, a movement to which the President has dedicated his birthday since he first took office.

Wendell Willkie was reduced "nearly to tears" by his first experience in an air raid shelter, according to the London press. The 1940 Republican presidential nominee, now on a personal fact-finding tour of Great Britain, spent almost three hours last night touring the London shelters, a gas mask swinging from his shoulder and a white tin helmet borrowed from an air-raid warden on his head. Mr. Willkie shook hands with hundreds of persons as he moved thru the crowds, including thousands of men, women, and children left homeless by Nazi bombs, and declared that "it was a terrific emotional experience. Several times I honestly felt that I could hardly keep from crying." The crowds frequently chanted "America!" and "Tell them to send all they've got!" as Mr. Willkie passed among them.

(This is the first time Mr. Evans has appeared in the Eagle since before Christmas, and I was beginning to wonder if they were going to find him alongside Panto.)

("AWWWW!" says Joe. "Hones'ly," says Sally. "You an' monkeys. I mean, whatizzit??")

"Brooklyn" writes in to Helen Worth telling "Dislillusioned" she ought to count her blessings. She has a husband who comes home and takes a nap, listens to the radio, and goes to bed? She should consider herself lucky. Or maybe she'd rather have a husband who "spends all his nights out with the boys, forgetting to come home late while entertaining a 'cutie,' and wasting his money on her?"

The Eagle Editorialist expresses regret that the Navy has chosen to build its new "super drydock" in Bayonne, but dismisses fears that its construction will lead to a whole new Navy Yard at the New Jersey port. The Brooklyn Navy Yard is such an important facility, served by thousands of skilled technical workers, that it would be foolish to think a new yard is needed. The community, must, however, be prepared to oppose any such Bayonne project if one is advanced.

(Yeah, well, watch out for Fazian spies.)

Nine Dodgers are now officially in the fold for 1941, with contracts received back at the Montague Street office from pitchers Curt Davis and Tex Carleton and outfielder Pete Reiser. The latest signings join pitchers Fred Fitzsimmons, Kirby Higbe, and Van Mungo, along with outfielders Joe Medwick and Dixie Walker and manager Leo Durocher. So far only catcher Mickey Owen is a serious holdout threat.

Still no word on a possible offer to Paul Waner.

King of the Swing Trumpet Harry James appears this week at the Flatbush Theatre, featuring his latest composition -- a hot salute to Dodger fandom called "Flatbush Flannigan." The said Mr. Flannigan is a rabid Dodger rooter, as who isn't, and a jitterbug to boot. Mr. James himself, though he is a Texan by birth with a drawl to prove it, has become a convinced Dodger fan himself, and can be found during the summer Waiting Till Next Year from a seat at Ebbets Field. Another new number featured during Mr. James's stage show is a real first -- a swing arrangement of the old Jewish folk song "Eli Eli."

(Shows what you know -- Sam Medoff did that number last year on the "Yiddish Melodies In Swing" program on WHN. So there.)

Comedienne Vera Vague has released her own list of Hollywood's Ten Best Dressed Men for 1940, citing Bing Crosby as Number One, because "the things he doesn't wear look so nice on the men who do wear them." Rudy Vallee comes in second because "no one else can wear dark glasses with such an air."

(Sparky needs to remind Doc exactly who it is that has the super-strength here.)

(Well, the US and the Soviet Union were talking about a joint Mars mission in 1985, so I'd be very interested in seeing how George's alternate future worked out.)

("I'm joining the Army! I'll be taking care of all these handsome young soldier boys so you won't have to worry about me at all!")

("Melcina" = Melachrino, an expensive imported brand favored by pretentious fops and effette Europeans. Clearly the crowd we're looking at here.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

The News has so far tried to downplay the racial undertones in the Strubing case, but the guard drops with the line "the plight of a woman being choked by the strong hands of a colored man." If that's a direct quote of the prosecutor, then it's pretty obvious what's really on trial here. And if it isn't a direct quote, the reporter is showing that she knows what's really on trial here.

Ew.

I whistle all the time, so nertz to you, Professor.

The thing with Daddy is that he has a habit of making fortunes and losing them just as quickly and then making them again and losing them again, ad infinitum. Maybe he should just give it up and go to work for Uncle Bim.

Jeez, Krome, lighten up.

Headlining at the Flatbush next week, "Bull Moose and Bruno!"

The best-laid plans....

Hmmm. What kind of hokey high school did Nina go to? I mastered touch typing in my junior year.

Well, he's probably a better risk than Daddy Warbucks.

Oh, Harold, you ineffable chump. (But the technique here is wonderful.)

 

[Harp]

There are four infantry ambush configurations: X,L,U,V. The LUV-yous allow escape by charging enemy fire
quickly, first volley aimed at waist, second at ankle to finish off any residual survival. The shave-and-a-haircut
three bit squeeze X cannot be escaped, just roll up and die. The guerillas are to be Xed.
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Love goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Shakespeare

Cupid's own configuration is all the more so certain cardiac target. Harold is caught in Cupid's X.
And there is no escape from Cupidityzzz X either.

 

[Fading Fast]

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A clay-and-quicklime-caked body excavated near Lyndhurst, New Jersey may be the remains of Longshoremen's Union crusader Peter Panto, missing since July 1939 and widely believed to have been done in by the Murder For Money gang. District Attorney William O'Dwyer has been supervising digging in the Lyndhurst area for several weeks following a "reliable tip" that stated Panto's body would be found there. Panto, a fearless opponent of underworld infiltrators in the International Longshoremen's Association, had led a movement among the union rank-and-file to end extortion and kickback methods operating on the Brooklyn waterfront, and his disappearance sparked mass meetings of union members demanding the capture and prosecution of his assassins. It is believed that the information that led the District Attorney to New Jersey came from Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, key Murder For Money informant whose tips have already led to the prosecution of leading members of that gang. The body was discovered shortly before 4pm yesterday and was taken to the William Collins Morgue in Lyndhurst, and from there was carried by a police escort to the Kings County Morgue for examination and identification. It is believed there may be at least one other body near the spot where the remains were found, and excavations are continuing at the scene today....

I respect that O'Dwyer appears to be a roll-up-his-sleeves-and-do-the-work guy, but is it really a good use of the taxpayers' money to have the DA spending several weeks at a dig site versus letting the men and women skilled at that do their job while he continues to work on other cases?

...Adolf Hitler told a cheering throng of his Nazi followers that Great Britain "is no democracy," and British talk of "liberty and democracy" are "empty phraseology. Addressing a crowd of 20,000 persons at the Berlin Sports Palace today, and millions via radio, the Nazi Fuherer marked the eighth anniversary of his accession to power by asserting that no aid provided by the United States to Britain can arrive in time to save that country....

And after giving his views on the shortfall's of democracy and liberty in the UK, Herr Hitler was scheduled to discuss religious intolerance in the United States.

...
A renegade chemist operating out of a Williamsburg flat cheated Brooklyn drug addicts by diluting the morphine sold on the borough's streets by fifty percent. A trial underway this week in Brooklyn Felony Court seeks to send that scientist and three accomplices to prison, where they will join convicted drug kingpin Louis Adelman, sentenced to ten years for his role in the scheme. 55-year-old Samuel Bernstein of 31 W. 58th Street in Manhattan is accused to being the head of the illicit laboratory, which took advantage of the common belief that morphine cannot be adulterated by devising a process to do exactly that, using a combination of milk, sugar, and alcohol to extend the drug to twice its original volume....

That's pretty explicit for 1940s' reporting on the drug trade. While it was definitely censored, the drug problem still snuck into some films of the era, often in indirect references or asides, but go back to the pre-code days of the early '30s and the movies were rife with explicit drug use and dealing.

Ann Dvorak in 1932's "Three on a Match" openly becomes a drug addict as we watch her physically decline, offer men sex for drugs and neglect her young child (she doesn't feed him) as her descent accelerates. It's shockingly graphic and painful.

Drug addict Ann Dvorak in "Three on a Match"

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(This is the first time Mr. Evans has appeared in the Eagle since before Christmas, and I was beginning to wonder if they were going to find him alongside Panto.)...

Not a crazy thought.

...Nine Dodgers are now officially in the fold for 1941, with contracts received back at the Montague Street office from pitchers Curt Davis and Tex Carleton and outfielder Pete Reiser. The latest signings join pitchers Fred Fitzsimmons, Kirby Higbe, and Van Mungo, along with outfielders Joe Medwick and Dixie Walker and manager Leo Durocher. So far only catcher Mickey Owen is a serious holdout threat....

Mrs. Fitzsimmons: [under her breath] "Phew." [in a loud, cheery voice] "Honey, would you like to see the Eagle, you're mentioned in the sports pages."

... (Well, the US and the Soviet Union were talking about a joint Mars mission in 1985, so I'd be very interested in seeing how George's alternate future worked out.)...

Just a note, Butch is guilty of criminal assault.

... ("I'm joining the Army! I'll be taking care of all these handsome young soldier boys so you won't have to worry about me at all!")...

If that letter is a 1940 version of "The Crying Game," "Mary Worth's" audience is in for quite a shock.

...
Ew....

Sadly, nothing is new.

... Hmmm. What kind of hokey high school did Nina go to? I mastered touch typing in my junior year....

I taught myself from a "Learn to Type" book in high school. It's not really hard, just takes some practice and patience.

... Oh, Harold, you ineffable chump. (But the technique here is wonderful.)

Yes to both comments.

There are four infantry ambush configurations: X,L,U,V. The LUV-yous allow escape by charging enemy fire
quickly, first volley aimed at waist, second at ankle to finish off any residual survival. The shave-and-a-haircut
three bit squeeze X cannot be escaped, just roll up and die. The guerillas are to be Xed.
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Love goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Shakespeare

Cupid's own configuration is all the more so certain cardiac target. Harold is caught in Cupid's X.
And there is no escape from Cupidityzzz X either.

So, their only hope is that Terry and his camel get there in time to warn them off the raid?

 

[ChiTownScion]

Harold is actually in a lot better position than if Lillums were still in the picture. If he opts for the drop dead gorgeous blonde with her still out of town at least there'll be no ugly public scenes. She chose to exile herself at her aunt's, so all's fair.

I'll add: glasses on a woman can- CAN- be indicative of a positive virtue. If she can read, she can acquire knowledge and develop insight. Even the "pretty" ones are unattractive (to me, anyway) if you say "Hello" to them and they're stuck for an answer. I never got that "dumb is cute in a girl" crap that some men buy into. What's endearing and adorable in a little kid can be grating in an adult, if that captures what I'm trying to say here. Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks was great for laughs on the radio program... but if you've ever had to deal with someone like that in a relationship, it's beyond annoying.

 

[Harp]

So, their only hope is that Terry and his camel get there in time to warn them off the raid?

The strip ambush scene seems set in town rather than open terrain and the occupier garrison small;
anticipatory ambush should ideally be set across access allowing level ground traverse.
Consequently, this is comically strip-skewered. And air strike on town is impractical.
So dice get rolled and a latrine comic strip crap game begins.

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Harold however definitely is nailed.